bobsled
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Shortly after taking a bobsled run with Team USA in Lake Placid, N.Y., in 2009, Colbert described the experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026
Most of the Jamaican team in Cortina is made up of sprinters who couldn’t catch Usain Bolt, so they climbed in a bobsled instead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
O’Brien’s rise to Olympian in the two-person bobsled, the second-fastest sliding sport of the Winter Games, has been even swifter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
"I am aware of the diatribe the commentator directed towards the Israeli bobsled team on the Swiss Olympic broadcast today," he wrote.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
He was picking up speed, skidding downhill like a bobsled.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
For all of Team USA’s success with the BMW bobsleds — including four medals in Sochi — the partnership only yielded elite World Cup-caliber sleds.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2022
Cold-weather sports require gloves and goggles and helmets, duffel bags bulging with hockey sticks, rifles for biathletes and four-man bobsleds the size of grand pianos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2022
Bodine helped create the “Bo-Dyn” project, one where the same principles that went into auto racing were turned into ways to build faster bobsleds.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2020
Bobsleigh, luge and skeleton are among the fastest of Olympic sports, with bobsleds reaching speeds in excess of 150kph.
From Reuters ● Jan. 8, 2018
Other parties of girls from the Hall, dragging bobsleds, were appearing now.
From Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays Rescuing the Runaways by Annie Roe Carr
But it’s also realistic to believe that Trinidad, just by being in the competition, is furthering something of a revolution in the Winter Olympics in general, and in bobsledding in particular.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
While all share the commonality of being unconventional competitors in a space where they’re considered to be a rarity, bobsledding and ski jumping originated as European sports.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2024
Indeed, Herschel Walker’s athletic record made him a state icon—he’s not only a former college football and NFL star, but he once also competed on the Olympic bobsledding team.
From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2022
When she left softball, she joined the world of bobsledding, where she had some breathtaking victories and met her husband, fellow bobsledder Nic Taylor.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2022
"I used to do a lot of bobsledding myself," said the professor, who was well liked by nearly all the cadets.
From The Rover Boys on a Hunt or The Mysterious House in the Woods by Edward Stratemeyer
